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If you’re old enough, you might remember the Apple Lisa computer that was around briefly in the early 1980’s. Of course, you would have had to have been paying attention to the computer industry because Lisa came and went pretty quickly. Lisa came on about the time the IBM PC was getting started and Lisa put a friendlier face on the computer (a graphical user interface). Lisa was the first commercial GUI computer. Trouble was, Lisa was too expensive at just under $10,000 and few bought into it. By all accounts, the Lisa was one of Apple’s biggest failures.
But do you know what computer came out right after Apple realized Lisa was failing? If you guessed the Apple Macintosh, you guessed correctly. We all know that that computer was not only one of Apple’s shining successes, but the introduction of the “Mac” represented a pivotal stage in modern computer environments.
What on earth does this have to do with Network Marketing? Well some take-aways. They had a huge failure followed by a huge success. Is that a take-away or what? If you are experiencing failure in your network marketing business, that big success might just be waiting around the corner.
The other thing to note is that Apple learned from the failure of the Lisa to make the Macintosh what it was. Likewise, before you wash that failure from your memory, take one last look at it and try to decide what you could have done differently if anything.
As network marketers, we have to get used to a lot of people saying no to us. To some, that equates to failure. In some cases you can learn from the no and in other cases there is nothing that would have made them say yes, and you just move on.
So don’t look at failure as something to be entirely discarded. See what you can learn from it and who knows? Maybe a big success is waiting just behind one of those failures.
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A friend told me about Yoli a few weeks ago. Yoli’s products are called “blast caps”. The idea is you fill a certain sized beverage bottle with water, attach the blast cap to the top, press — and enjoy! The caps ‘explodes’ into the water creating a drink. The formulation is a proprietary blend with low sugar. It seems at this point, they have only one product.
The compensation plan is a ‘hybrid’ unilevel and binary. They do make a fair bit of detail on their comp plan available to public viewing on their site. Is Yoli just another juice MLM or is it something different?
Well obviously its blast cap features are unique. I don’t know of any other product that delivers like that. Most juices come pre made and all you do is open them. Or else they are a mix and you do the measuring and mixing yourself.
While Yoli blast caps certainly look fun, I have to ask myself how long will this last? How long before the ‘novelty’ factor wears off? How soon will people get unexcited by the blast cap? How long before people get tired of using a custom made bottle to attach a custom made cap to? How long before someone else comes along with something similar and/or better?
While Yoli has other things going for it (for example it is sweetened with Stevia Reb-A a newer plant based sweetener), I have to wonder if it will survive in an already crowded juice and beverage marketplace.
A few weeks ago, I tweeted this question because I was curious: Will Yoli Blast Caps fit on any bottle? If not, why not?. One gentleman by the name of Jim Bishop responded and said “Because the cap is a certain size (Same as Vitamin Water), so it does fit other bottles but only one size.” So I guess that means you can re-use those Vitamin Water bottles too. One thing that was fascinating was that as a result of that one tweet, I got a whole bunch of Yoli Twitter followers.
That along with buzz I’ve been hearing leads me to think that Yoli has a lot of pre-launch hype. Yes like the Donald Trump Network, it hasn’t even launched yet. So it’s a bit of wait and see for me. In the meantime it does look fun and it looks like something kids will like too. Not to mention the inner kid in me!
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Are you searching for a job and not having any luck? If so, you aren’t alone these days. New figures are out for September job data and they indicate the unemployment problem is still increasing. What if you could create your own job?
Well a network marketing business isn’t exactly a ‘job’ but it can replace a job in terms of making income. The best part of a network marketing home based business is that you will be in control of your situation.
The worst part of looking for illusive high paying jobs is that you are only partially in control of the situation. Especially now, your success in such an endeavor will likely depend on things like luck, timing, and who you happen to know.
With a home based network marketing business, those things help as well. But your success depends primarily on the effort you put into your home business.
So if you are tired of looking for those elusive high paying jobs that may or may not come your way, give some thought to a home based business. In that scenario, you are the boss!
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According to Zig Ziglar (and I believe it’s true), all people want certain things at a basic level. I’m not talking about food and shelter; no, not quite that basic. But about things people want in their lives. One of those things is to have hope that the future will be better.
These days with so many things wrong with our economy and so many people out of work, people have trouble maintaining this hope. They tend to feel helpless about hoping for a better future.
The best way to have hope for a better future is to take some control over the situation. And what better way to take control over a situation than with your home based business. A home based business, especially a network marketing business, puts some power in your hands to guide the future. This alone will do a lot for someone’s hope. It can replace a feeling of ‘hopelessness’ with hope and strengthen their outlook.
You can’t just join a network marketing business, do nothing, and expect that to give you any hope. You will also need to expect to take some action. The action in turn will produce results, which will fulfill your hope for a better future. Action is how hope turns into results.
If you are just waiting around for things to get better, hoping somehow that phone will ring and bring back good times, well, that may be a false hope. But starting a network business will bring action if you work the business.
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